Adding a Release
Description
In Zephyr Enterprise, projects consists of releases that assist in organizing your testing. By default, when a project is initially created, there will always be a default release. This default release is labeled as "Release 1.0". Users can add releases to a project which includes the following fields and options: Name and Description of release, the ability to Hide the release and Map an External Defect Project to the release, and the Start Date and End Date. To learn how to add releases, please view the steps below.
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Table of Contents
The steps below describe in detail the general process of adding, editing, deleting, and cloning a release within a project for Zephyr Enterprise. To view further instructions for each individual function, please click the links provided below. By clicking on a link, you will be redirected to the page with the steps corresponding to the function selected.
Adding Releases
Prior to Adding a Release
Prior to adding a release, there must be an existing project that has been created in Zephyr Enterprise. The project must be selected and the user must have selected the manage release button explained in the Release Setup section.
Scenario: You are a testing manager that just created a project called "Mercury" and you are managing your releases within project Mercury. You currently have 1 release in the system. As a testing manager, you want to add a brand new release to the project.
If this is your first time managing a release, you might want to create and work in a test project that doesn't affect another project, and work out any issues you might have with managing a release before you work in a live project.
1. In 'Manage Release', simply click the "+" button that looks like icon to the right. 
2. A module will pop up asking you to either "Create new release" or "Clone existing release" and after selecting, you will click on the "Continue" button. (In our scenario, we'll be selecting "Create new release")
3. After clicking "Create new release", fill in the Name of the release, Start Date, and End Date for the release. (In our scenario, we'll use "Release 2.0" as the name of the release, the start date will be set to January 17, 2018, and the end date will be set to January 24, 2018.)
The other fields are optional that can be filled out. Optional fields are displayed below for further explanation:
- Description - A written representation to help provide an explanation for the release.
- Hide - A way to hide or suppress a specific release.
- Hiding a release will not delete any data.
- Hiding a release will cause the release to not appear in the project's release drop-down list.
- Users are able to access test cases via the Global Tree in the Test Repository.
- Users are able to access read-only execution statuses in the Test Execution section of Zephyr Enterprise.
- Map External Defect Project - A way to map an external defect project from Jira to the release.
4. Simply click the "Save" button to finalize all the details of the release and the new release will be created.
5. You can immediately switch to the new Release and start using it right away.